“The problem has its original cause, the sanctions, which are used against Russia, do we consider them justified or wrong and unfair? I think they are justified. Russia has taken on the mission to become a major geopolitical pole, to which it has neither economic, nor democratic, demographic and legal rights and possibilities.
In this context, it has also involved Armenia and any sanction imposed to Russia will have worse influence on Armenia than on Russia,” said the leader of the “Republic” party, Aram Sargsyan, to the question of Aravot.am of what possible developments and consequences will the Russian-American confrontation have in Armenia. Recall that yesterday, the U.S. embassy in Armenia had released a message warning the RA government and businesses that the partnership with Russia imposed sanction officials and companies can be risky. This was followed by Russian Embassy’s answer to Armenia, “It is not appropriate for the diplomatic mission to indicate to the authorities of the host country with whom and how they should cooperate, especially using by using poorly veiled threats in respect of the sovereign state. (…)We believe that the business community of Armenia is also able to understand the business issues and do not need others’ suggestions. We express our concern about American attempts to complicate the work of Russian business in the Republic of Armenia. All Russian companies represented on the territory of Armenia, including “VTB Armenia” bank and “Areximbank”, are under the jurisdiction of given country, make a profit and pay taxes in Armenia and provide employment to the significant part of the country population.”
“In the general context, Armenia’s economy will greatly suffer from it, starting from the transfers coming to Armenia and ending with Russian enterprises that were not making investments here and were operated and depreciated to throw away and leave, and now, they will not operate them at all. Unemployment and so on, which is very bad,” said our interlocutor, adding that with Eurasian Union, Russia considers itself an alternative to European Union by raising a question, “What is the alternative? The European Union is a democracy, human rights, free judicial market system, competition in the economy, serious financing of scientific resources. Which is Russia’s alternative to it? Is your democracy to have constantly the same life-president, corrupt judicial system, monopolies in market economy and having oligarchs? We have to make a choice in-between these two. There are many political parties, including government and non-government, which see the development of Armenia with the Russian path. There are forces that see the development of Armenia beyond it, one of which is also the “Republic”. And what they say the main debate in the upcoming next or early parliamentary or presidential elections will be among these forces and around this idea.”
Pursuant to Aram Sargsyan, Armenia does not have any opportunity to come out safe from this Russian-American conflict in Armenia. To the question of how deep the process will go, our interlocutor said, “I think this process of the Cold War, which has begun will end up in Russia’s capitulation.”
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Nelly GRIGORYAN
